Its been about five years now since we constructed our backdrop for downtown
Hazleton and its beginning to look a little shabby. The construction paper
support is starting to warp and sag in various spots and has become a
distraction from the entire scene. Even when it was new it did not quite match
the look of what we wanted to achieve. However it was the best we had to mount
at the time and we were somewhat satisfied with the results.

Recently, one of our members, Bob Brubaker, took a number of photos of
downtown Hazleton at a location that fits in with our scene on our layout. He
then resized the pictures to scale and printed and mounted them in a flat
transparent cover. They came out just right as a backdrop for our Hazleton area.
We are now going to remove our existing backdrop and replace it with the work
that Bob has done for us.

All of our pictures below are thumbnails. Be sure to click on them to see the
full size picture.

A picture taken right before we begin. Notice the cardboard
buildings in the back. They are warped and starting to distract from the
scene.

Another picture of our background. All the buildings in the
foreground are fairly decent replicas of Hazleton buildings during the
time period of the mid 1940s.